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adter 17 minths of returning to aikido, this after an absence of  17 years, I have bid adieu ti Sensei and abadinned aikido again. The reason is the increasing afflictions of age. I suffer fromvarious symptoms which led to Parkinsonism, dysphonia, freezing of gait and festination, micrographia among them. Whether or not I shall be diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a determination which can apparently only be definitively nade in a autopsy, they affect my life and will continue to do so.

 

 

Practicing aikido under sych circumstances is like tring to learn to ski when you csn’t even walk

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Cher Sensei,

Tu avais peut-être raison en avril 2022 quand tu m’as dit que je devais voir un neurologue. Mes symptomes ont progressé depuis lors au point que je le crois inutile de poursuivre mon entrainement en aikido, bien que un diagnostic définitif ne soit pas encore établi.

Je tiens à te remercier personellement pour l’accueil généreux que tu m’as réservé et tous les accommodements que tu m’as fait. Mes remerciements vont aussi aux collègues qui m’ont accepté et toléré pendant les seize derniers mois, je pense en particulier à Charn, à Joāo, à Keith, à EJ, à Mike et bien sûr à Sandy.

Je passerai mardi pour reprendre mes armes et pour dire au revoir.

Un grand merci !

Georges

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the two clips

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20 Must-Know Aikido Tips For Beginners (With Pictures)

https://www.activif.com/20-must-know-aikido-tips-for-beginners-with-pictures/

 

Let me add to my concerns: apart from the persistent cough I apparently suffer from several early symptoms of parkinsonism: dysphonia; micrographia;, festination with staggering steps; maybe pill-rolling; a left arm tremor (which has been diagnozed as essential tremor and which responds well to propranolol)

However I also have a tendency  towards hypochondria….
Tremor (essential)

Micrographia

Staggering steps / festination

Dysphonia

Pill-rolling    

Bradykinesia

Hypochondria or Parkersonism?

Parkinson’s disease is the most common form of parkinsonism and is also called idiopathic parkinsonism, meaning that it has no identifiable cause.[22][32] The accumulation of a misfolded protein alpha-synuclein in the brain, and its spread throughout the brain makes Parkinson’s disease a neurodegenerative disease classed as a synucleinopathy, and more specifically as an alpha-synucleinopathy (αsynucleinopathy).[33]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-synuclein

Other recognized motor signs and symptoms include gait and posture disturbances such as festination (rapid shuffling steps and a forward-flexed posture when walking with no flexed arm swing). Other common signs include freezing of gait (brief arrests when the feet seem to get stuck to the floor, especially on turning or changing direction), a slurred, monotonous, quiet voice, mask-like facial expression, and handwriting that gets smaller and smaller.[48]

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a type of dementia characterized by changes in sleep, behavior, cognition, movement, and regulation of automatic bodily functions.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30536108/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-018-9146-7

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigrostriatal_pathway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_walking

https://elderstrength.com/nordic-walking-for-seniors/

Open up Skinny-Dippin’

The afterlives of Bea / Pointe Calumet 

Annotated Translation of Horace Iter ad Brindisi.

Letter to Seymour 

Créoles / kréyol yé have a compelling intellectual interest.

Ina  moun icit ki interesse dan lalang michif, yon melanj de franse ak algonquin.  Egzanp: link to sites

My use of alcohol

Kreyol Proverb of the Day  #MoKV

My fav rhymes from Skinny-Dippin’. Zippo lingo, whomp and swamp, 

I love films about the DDR, aka East Germany. This is probably generational. I’m a boomer and was used to cold war. But also it reflects my politics. I am anti-capitalist and accordingly have a natural curiosity about and empathy for anti-capitalist regimes, as awful as they may have been.

There are of course good Americans, even white ones. But they seem increasingly outnumbered by bad ones. 

The need to write is already enough of an aggravation without having to worry about getting published. Besides, I’m retired and the internet “lets me” give it away.

Jingles and Quips. Old Spice. See the USA in your Chevrolet   

Forgone confusion

Typical bad behaviour of territorial primates.

From a feline perspective humans are strange. They actually go to a bathroom when they go to the bathroom, rather than to a box.

The Groves of Academe, the novel.

Many African-Americans suffer from the same blind (or deaf) prescriptive monolingualism as white Americans, even if they speak AAVE (aka Ebonics) and are thus bi-dialectal.

Articles Archives – Foreign Crime Drama

 Poetry 093546

Open the gates of poetry

My conversion

Vietnam is the Asian country which most affected my life because of the American war. But I also feel the ancestral call from Japan, China and Korea.

Im a rhymester, a lover of ditties and jingles and the like. But I’m also loyal to my concretists phase, including an affection for found poems, prose poems, any use of language which calls attention to how strange it is.

^^^^^^

Everything could be
structured differently. But it ain’t!

II = imho the best indigenous identifying poet

A whole passel of folks with values antithetical to my own have a lot of power..  What to do about this ?

Hedonism is a philosophy for the old. Youth itself is pure pleasure. The young don’t need to reflect on it.

Not yet Altzy, Parky or demented
just plain old senile

Make the Universal Yiddish Library a Reality

Down in Houston

Zydeco

Houston Bound

Beyoncé, Creoles, and Modern Blackness

During the week I had asymptomatic  covid I had weird dreams and  I am sure that my purportedly innocuous bout of omicron has sped me on my way to dementia. Or maybe I was losing it before covid, which just gave me a way to conceptualize what was happening.

Kouri-vini, or KV in linguist shorthand, is the name that certain proponents of Louisiana Creole, LC, have adopted for that language. It is different from Louisiana or Cajun French, which is a variety of French, LF.

It is hard to explain without getting technical, but the grammar of the two languages are different.  “I do it” is “je le fais” in LF, but “mo fe li” in KV. In other words, LF is SOV (subject-object-verb) while KV is SVO (gvsubject-verb-object).

To which must be added: “Creole” as a people or group refers to the “mixed-race” descendents of the inhabitants before the 1803 purchase of the French  colony by the US.

Creoles included “free persons of color”, slaves (or enslaved persons, as the contemporary jargon has it), and Cajuns or descendents of the refugees from French Canada after the English victory in 1759. They were usually Catholic and French-speaking, as opposed to the new majority Anglo-Protestants both black and white, and Indians, a few of whom still speak French, apparently.

That, st least, is my take on it ….